One of the main motivating factors in pursuing this is that there is a moral imperative to do so. If people were in touch with reality and were living in a safe world where we all got along, then there wouldn't be a great need for the Church of Reality. But that's not the kind of world we live in.

We live in a world that is turning it's back on reality. We are a world that has nuclear weapons and the number of nations with nuclear capabilities are increasing. Many of the nations that have these weapons are unstable and irresponsible. Many are in the control of fiction-based religions that envision a future of Armageddon. They see us as living in the "Latter Days" which is a code word for the destruction of the world. These people are Extinctionists and they are acquiring the technology to make it happen.

The reality of what is happening is that a world-wide religious war is brewing. The Christians claim to have seized control of the United States. We have a president who seriously contemplated using nuclear weapons against an unarmed Muslim state that they invaded without cause - and in spite of the United Nations and the world community. Christian aggression is scaring and inflaming the Muslim world and half of the Jewish world. It also is scaring the non-religious world and really scaring the hell out of us Realists. I'm not ready to accept the destruction of the human race and handing the planet over to the cockroaches just because all these people who claim to be affiliated with God can't figure out how to live in peace.

The Muslims control several wealthy countries and are working towards getting nuclear weapons. These are countries that stone children to death because they were forced to commit sex crimes for money. The Supreme Court of Iran upholds these kinds of atrocities and they want to spread this kind of barbarism throughout the civilized world. Although Muslims give lip service to peace - anyone who can see the terrorism in the Muslim culture knows that peace is not the dominant force at work. We are realists and what you do is what you believe. If you commit terrorism then you are a terrorist. If you are part of a religion that has a vast and powerful terrorist wing and you sit silently and allow it to happen and remain part of that culture - then you are part of the problem.

The Jewish religion used to be the good guys - the exception to the rule - but not any more. Their callous disregard for life is equivalent to the Palestinians callous disregard for life. And the wall looks more ominous to me than the Berlin wall. And what is really scary is that the abomination was built by the State of Israel - not the Soviet Union.

Similarly, the Christian Right is trying to turn America into a theocracy. They want control of the schools so that they can teach primitive religious concepts like Creationism to children and use cult-type brainwashing techniques to perpetuate their mythical religion. Evolution is not a theory - it's a absolute fact. They are trying to exclude science - force their prayers on us - and try to drive out the non-believers, and turn the world into a giant cult. I, for one, will not live under cult rule. They have formed an alliance with the Republican Party and the multinational corporations to steal elections leaving America with a simulation of a Democracy.

The difference between Evolution and Creationism is that Evolution is Real and Creationism is Fiction.

When you live in a country where the outcome of the election is determined by who counts the votes, and when the vendor of the electronic voting machines promises to deliver a victory to the party they are contributing to, and elections are determined by the party who has the power to change district maps - that's not a democracy. We are living in a simulation and we Realists have a problem with that.

As the most powerful nation on the planet, America has gone from the largest surplus in the history of the world to the biggest deficit in the history of the world. At present America is losing million of dollars a minute. What happens when the country with the most guns can't pay their bills and is in the hands of an Extinctionist religion? America is a nation that is Living the Lie. We have turned out backs on the real world - and we risk being punished. It is my position that you can't keep spending borrowed money forever without serious and dangerous consequence.

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